Table 1.
Statistical results for the effect of phase and lion on the FCM concentrations, showing model selection based on Akaike’s information criteria corrected for small sample size and the best fit linear mixed model output. Selected model is denoted in bold.
| Model Selection | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Model | K | AICc | Δ AICc | Weight | |||||
| FCM~Phase + Lion | 8 | 700.00 | 0.00 | 0.63 | |||||
| FCM~Phase | 5 | 701.09 | 1.09 | 0.36 | |||||
| FCM~Phase ∗ Lion | 4 | 709.14 | 9.14 | 0.01 | |||||
| Final Model Output | |||||||||
| Factor | Estimate | Standard Error | t-Value (df) | p- Value | 95% CI | ||||
| Intercept | 18.47 | 1.87 | 9.88 (108) | <0.001 | [14.80, 22.13] | ||||
| Phase (P2) | −1.13 | 1.15 | −0.99 (108) | 0.33 | [−3.38, 1.12] | ||||
| Phase (P3) | −4.48 | 1.11 | −4.03 (108) | <0.001 | [−6.66, −2.30] | ||||
| Lion (F2) | 0.86 | 2.54 | 0.34 (108) | 0.74 | [−4.13, 5.84] | ||||
| Lion (F3) | 1.64 | 2.55 | 0.64 (108) | 0.52 | [−3.37, 6.64] | ||||
| Lion (M2) | −2.29 | 2.46 | −0.93 (108) | 0.36 | [−7.11, 2.54] | ||||
Abbreviations: K, number of parameters of the model; AICc, Akaike’s information criteria corrected for small sample size; ΔAICc, difference between the model AICc score and AICc of the lowest model; df, degrees of freedom; CI, confidence interval.